VA –Waikiki Surf Battle  best of comp of 3 rare Hawaiian surf LPs  SEALED LP

released about 30 years ago 

This is a best of 3 rare Hawaiian surf battle records from 1963 & 64 VA - Waikiki Surf battle vols 1 & 2  and VA - Battle of the Bands

Here is a track by track review from Reverb Central website

High Surf

Surf (Instrumental)

"High Surf" is very heavily influenced by "Surf Beat," but with a variant melody. Intense vintage reverb in the riff surf vein. The string slide notes are pretty cool.

Vagabond Surf

Surf (Instrumental)

"Vagabond Surf" is a zesty surf rager not unlike some of the finer originals to come out of the Midwest. The youthful exuberance of the band is only exceeded by the sparkling guitar. Major fun and vital period surf magic.

Last Night

Surf Blues (Instrumental)

This is a pretty bluesy tune, and with the dreadful mix, the melody line to "Last Night" is almost completely lost. It ends up like a minor Freddie King backtrack.

Wipe Out

Surf Blues (Instrumental)

One of the better known of the Hawaiian surf bands of the era, the Statics to a brutally flawed "Wipe Out" while keeping their chins up. I'll bet they were damn happy when it was over. Even the liners called it their "nervous '63 mangle." Still, they ended up in second place the following year.

Panic Button

Surf Jam (Instrumental)

This isn't the Fireballs' tune. "Panic Button" is a rabid riff rocker with no shortage of fire, but generally lacking in melody.

Surf Rider

Surf (Instrumental)

This girl band does a very odd version of "Surf Rider" with a restrained performance and a ukulele feel. Vibrant and unabashed, yet quite amateur.

Zombie

Monster Surf (Instrumental)

The monster theme opener quickly yields to an interesting surf melody cranked out with full force and speed. Great arranging and infectious writing create an above average surf intro. Though the sound is pretty suckie, the spirit is really strong.

Apache

Surf (Instrumental)

This is a relatively basic performance of "Apache," with vibrato on the lead, and intense tone on the second guitar.

Pipeline / Move It

Surf (Instrumental)

The Spiedles were easily the best of the bands at the 1963 battle, and indeed they won first place. This is a very tuff performance. Milton Soong's rhythm guitar drives the second guitar part with intense tone. I asked Milton once how he got that sound, but he didn't remember. After a couple of verses of "Pipeline," the glissando drops into the absolute best version of "Move It" ever! No joke! Milton's intense tone and vibrant neck slides drive this otherwise quirky tune to become a real surf monster. They should have cut an album. Essential surf.

Pressure

Surf (Instrumental)

The Pyramids' "Pressure" gets reverent treatment from the Dimensions. Aside from a heavy handed ultra reverbed sound, the arrangement is true to the single. The intensity of the guitars gives it a lot more power than the original.

Journey To The Stars

Surf (Instrumental)

"Journey To The Stars" is treated like a strait cover, and is well done. Nothing new here, except the delivery is a bit tuffer and more vibrant than the Ventures' original. The organ part is carried via double picked guitar duet. Pretty cool.

War Of The Satellites

Surf (Instrumental)

The Ventures' "War Of The Satellites" is played straight, right down to the silliness of the embellishing notes. It is more powerful, but still not really interesting.

Cruel Sea

Surf (Instrumental)

The Dakotas' surf B-side is well played and presented the way the Ventures cut it. Nothing special.

Penetration

Surf (Instrumental)

The Rivals arranged this based on the Ventures' version, even using echo instead of reverb. It is less silly than theirs, but also less interesting than the Pyramids' original single.

Surf Jam

Surf (Instrumental)

An unlikely name for a Hawaiian surf band (or any other surf band for that matter), but here they are. The Lepricons' take on the Beach Boys' "Surf Jam" is less interesting than the original, but that's mostly because the performance is kinda funky.

Static Beat

Surf (Instrumental)

This is a pretty interesting track. Quite outside what you'd consider trad surf from a rhythm guitar chord progression point of view, yet sporting a very cool lead riff. The chord progression approximates the Revel's "Church Key," and indeed a few bars are thrown in for the break. The Statics won second place in the 1964 battle.

The Ward

Rock (Instrumental)

Chuck Berry chords and noodling does not a surf instro make, but then here are some shine double picked moments. Melody free nonsense. How they won the 1964 battle is a wonder, but then it was the Beatles' era, and they mostly did rip off Berry's chords, as did the Beach Boys, so maybe it's not so strange.

Miserlou

Surf (Instrumental)

Here we go, with another hot performance by the amazing Spiedels. Miserlou is traditionally arranged and played with amazing fire and spunk. The arrangement is a blend of Dick Dale and his Del-tones' single and the album version ("Miserlou Twist"). Hot and fast.

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